(Updated at 7:33 p.m) POTTSTOWN — Clutching a heavily bandaged right hand, Albert J. Dudanowicz Jr., the man accused of shooting at police during a standoff at the Logan Court Apartments Feb. 9, shuffled slowly out of court Thursday to a waiting police car.

Dudanowicz was being returned to Montgomery County Correctional Facility to await trial after District Judge Scott T. Palladino held over attempted murder, assault of a police officer and related charges against him during the preliminary hearing.

Dudanowicz was shot by a sniper after he allegedly fired five gunshots at police during the Feb. 9 standoff which lasted more than 12 hours. Apart from the first several minutes of his preliminary hearing which Dudanowicz spent leaning over a garbage can apparently sick to his stomach, Dudanowicz spent the remainder of the hearing holding his bandaged arm where he was shot.

Assistant District Attorney Nathan Schadler and First Assistant District Attorney Kevin R. Steele were both at district court Thursday to prosecute the case, and they called several witnesses to testify to the incidents that unfolded the day of the standoff.

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First to testify was the property manager of the Logan Court Apartments, Denzil Wagoner, who described waking up to the sound of someone slamming washer and dryer doors around 6 a.m. Feb. 9. Wagoner said he found Dudanowicz making the noise, and when Dudanowicz didn’t acknowledge his requests to be quiet, Wagoner called the property manager. The property manager told Wagoner to call the police.

Pottstown police officers responded to the disturbance and spoke with Wagoner, he testified. They attempted to make contact with Dudanowicz, but Dudanowicz refused to come to the door. As police were exiting the apartments, they heard a gunshot, which Wagoner said came into his apartment.

“A shot came through my door,” Wagoner said in testimony, noting the gunshot sounded like it came from a “big gun.” Asked how he felt when that happened, Wagoner said he was “horrified.”

Police were not immediately able to determine where the gunshot came from, and the ChesMont Emergency Response Team, or CMERT, was called to respond.

Pottstown Officer Steven Morrisey who was second in command of CMERT the day of the standoff, testified Thursday that he officers made multiple attempts to get Dudanowicz to exit the apartment building. He said he made repeated commands over a loud speaker for Dudanowicz to exit the apartment, but Dudanowicz ignored all commands.

Morrisey said all the apartment buildings were evacuated and he entered the apartment building to attempt to access the property manager’s apartment to get the keys for all buildings so “the shooter didn’t have access to all the buildings.” Morrisey said once inside he observed the bullet hole in the property manager’s apartment and was able to follow its trajectory to a bullet hole in Dudanowicz’s apartment door. Morrisey said police went from “having a shooter in an unknown location to having a barricaded subject inside an apartment.”

Morrisey described some of the tactical decisions that were made during the standoff, including the decision to move an armored vehicle closer to the apartment where police believed Dudanowicz may have been holed up. He said in testimony that a reflective screen in the sliding glass door of Dudanowicz’s apartment prevented police from seeing inside. To gain a visual, a robot from the Montgomery County Bomb Squad equipped with a camera was used to attempt to gain entry into Dudanowicz’s apartment.

The robot was deployed and “a few seconds later I heard five to six gunshots,” Morrisey testified. He said he could see “pieces of red brick being splattered about” in the area where he and the armored vehicle, which had five officers inside it, were located.

According to officials and testimony, one of the gunshots Morrisey reported hearing came from Pottstown Cpl. Jamie O’Neill, the sniper who fired at Dudanowicz.

O’Neill was one of those called to testify during the preliminary hearing Thursday. He explained that he was stationed on the third floor of an apartment building across the street from Dudanowicz’s apartment. O’Neill said his vantage point gave him a view of the sliding glass door to Dudanowicz’s apartment as well as a view of the armored tactical vehicle called the Bear Cat.

O’Neill said he heard several gunshots and noted they “were coming directly out at the Bear Cat and the team around it.” O’Neill said he saw the reflective screen which had prevented police from seeing into Dudanowicz’s apartment had moved a bit, and he saw someone holding a rifle standing near the screen.

“I saw the barrel (of the rifle) horizontal to the ground and (it was) pointed at team members” who were in and around the armored vehicle, O’Neill said.

“For the protection of the other members there (and) for fear they would be severely injured or killed” O’Neill fired one shot from his weapon, striking Dudanowicz.

That shot, investigators and prosecutors said, likely saved lives.

The shot not only injured Dudanowicz, but also damaged the bolt action rifle Dudanowicz was allegedly pointing at police officers.

Morrisey testified that after O’Neill returned fire on Dudanowicz, he was able to see Dudanowicz via video feed from the robot, and he saw him “kneeling, wearing a white T-shirt, covered in blood on his chest.” He also saw Dudanowicz “reaching with his left hand to pick up a rifle,” and when police used the announcement system on the robot to order Dudanowicz to put the weapon down, Dudanowicz “had an angry look on his face. He looked at the rifle and threw it out the sliding glass door.”

Morrisey said about 12 hours after the incident began and Dudanowicz was bleeding from a gunshot wound, “I had the opinion he was either losing consciousness from blood loss or exhaustion.”

Officials moved into the building and took Dudanowicz into custody around 7:30 p.m.

After Dudanowicz was in custody, investigators gathered evidence from the scene.

Montgomery County Detective John Finor, a ballistics expert, testified that he recovered two weapons from the scene, one of them the damaged bolt action rifle and the other a .50-caliber revolver. The evidence at the scene indicated the .50-caliber weapon had been fired from inside Dudanowicz’s apartment. Additionally, evidence indicated several bullet strikes from the weapon had hit the armored vehicle and a brick wall the armored vehicle was parked by during the standoff.

Finor was able to determine the gunshot that entered the property manager’s door had been fired from Dudanowicz’s apartment.

Additionally, Finor testified about the power of the weapons and ammunition he recovered.

He said the .375 caliber rifle is used to hunt large game animals, including elephants, cape buffalo and rhinos in Africa. The bullets that were found in both weapons were solid bullets which are “made for deep penetration in large, dangerous game.”

Finor testified that when the .375 caliber rifle was discharged by officials at the Montgomery County range, the bullet traveled through a wooden block, two body armor vests, a stack of dry newspapers and made contact with the metal back drop at the range, damaging it. He said the solid bullets have “the potential for penetrating many, many animals,” indicating it had the potential to be deadly if fired at officers.

Defense attorney Louise Petrillo made no final argument during the hearing, and all five counts of attempted murder, assault of a law enforcement officer and related offenses were held over. However, Petrillo did seek a reduction in Dudanowicz’s $2 million cash bail. She called Dudanowicz a “57-year-old gentleman” with “no prior arrests.”

Steele argued against any reduction in bail, stating that in his opinion, the nature of the charges warrants no bail.

Testimony given Thursday “clearly shows the defendant to be a danger to the community,” Steele said. He acknowledged the action taken by O’Neill to return fire to Dudanowicz after Dudanowicz fired at police, and the fact that O’Neill’s shot damaged Dudanowicz’s weapon.

“No bail would be appropriate, but at the least, I’d ask it to stay the same.”

After listening to more than 90 minutes of testimony and the final bail arguments, Palladino said he agreed with the prosecution, and denied the bail request.

Dudanowicz was returned to Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $2 million cash bail to await trial.

POTTSTOWN — Clutching a heavily bandaged right hand, Albert J. Dudanowicz Jr., the man accused of shooting at police during a standoff at the Logan Court Apartments Feb. 9, shuffled slowly out of court Thursday to a waiting police car.

Dudanowicz was being returned to Montgomery County Correctional Facility to await trial after District Judge Scott T. Palladino held all charges against him during the preliminary hearing.

Dudanowicz was shot by a sniper after he allegedly fired five gunshots at police during the Feb. 9 standoff which lasted more than 12 hours. Apart from the first several minutes of his preliminary hearing which Dudanowicz spent leaning over a garbage can apparently sick to his stomach, Dudanowicz spent the remainder of the hearing holding his bandaged arm where he was shot.

After listening to more than 90 minutes of testimony from several Pottstown police officers and Montgomery County detectives, Palladino denied a bail reduction request made by Dudanowicz’s attorney, Louise Petrillo. Dudanowicz remains incarcerated in lieu of $2 million cash bail while he awaits trial.

Several new details emerged during the 90 minutes of testimony, including the potential damage Dudanowicz could have caused with the weapons and ammunition he had in his apartment during the standoff, including a .50-caliber revolver and a .375-caliber bolt action rifle. Investigators revealed during testimony that the ammunition for those weapons were solid bullets, used to hunt large game animals.